Happy New Year!
Do you have New Year, Christmas holidays? How long have they been going? From what to what date?
By the way, this is a working heavy breed of horses! We have our own breed of horses in the region - the Vyatka horse. But nowadays it's rare to see a horse.
Happy New Year 🥳 The Vyatka horses are gorgeous! Christmas Eve is not even a bank holiday here. Christmas Day is the main family holiday. We also have Boxing Day on 26th December which is the best day of the year if you are in town and decide to hit the shops as pretty much everything is on sale. This year as 25th and 26th December fell on a weekend, we got Monday and Tuesday off, so we were back at work on 29th December for the last three working days of 2021. My company allowed us to work till 2pm only on both 24 and 31 December which I do appreciate as it gave me more time to get ready for the special dinners. Today was my first day back at work after a bank holiday Monday. You actually inspired me by being interested in our holidays and traditions. Therefore I decided on my next post which will be about a traditional gift that we exchange over here during the festive season.
Thank you for such a detailed answer.
I will be happy to read your post about the holidays and your gifts.
The fact is that such traditions were discontinued during the Soviet era. And now people just don't know how to celebrate Christmas properly.
A holiday of gifts? Brilliant! But why is it coming after Christmas?
I read the description of the holiday. I understood why it happens on this particular day!